Democrats Join Battle for Vacant US Senate Seat in Indiana – WOWO 92.3 FM | 1190am

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) – An Indianapolis City and County Council member on Thursday became the second Democrat to announce that she will win Indiana’s vacant U.S. Senate seat in the 2024 election.

Keith Potts is joining former state senator Mark Carmichael in the race for the party’s nomination to fill the Republican seat. Senator Mike Brown gives up to run for Governor of Indiana. Carmichael announced his candidacy last month.

There are no prominent Democrats moving to campaign in Republican-majority states. Republican US Congressman Jim Banks We have secured high support as. the only prominent Republican candidate in the Senate election campaign.

Potts was elected to the Indianapolis City Council in 2019 but did not seek re-election this year. He identified affordable health care, abortion rights and social security protection as top priorities for his campaign against Banks, who is in the spotlight in Washington. Militant defender of former President Donald Trump.

Carmichael served as a state legislator in Muncie from 1986 to 1991 and was a longtime chairman and lobbyist for the Indiana Beverage Alliance, a beer distribution association.